Lawyers for Allison Mack, former Smallville actress and cult leader, argued in court documents that if Scientologists aren’t guilty of exploiting forced labor through blackmail, then neither is she.

From 2014 to 2017, HBO’s The Leftovers built a cult following, based on its painful and gorgeous meditations of grief. The show forced viewers to confront human suffering with little resolve, under the supernatural premise that a rapture-like event, The Departure, vanished two percent of Earth’s population, forcing…

Donald Trump has blamed the Christmas Eve death of an 8-year-old boy on Democrats and the child’s grieving parents in a tweet.

In New York City, food is over, and cocktails made from eau de vie and whey are what we’re meant to be consuming for nourishment.

One might think that an agency with the words “Environmental Protection” right there in the name would be against poisonous air, but then one would be wrong.

We published many blogs this dreadful year, and you read a bunch of them. Here are the ones you read the most.

Rihanna is the most important millennial of our time. The Rihanna Rihport is where we chronicle the magnitude of her lived existence.

New Year’s Eve is mostly about getting hopes way up, paying too much for drinks, and wanting to have just stayed home. But getting sick on New Year’s brings its own sort of Instagram scrolling FOMO misery, where every single person you know and every single person you don’t is having fun without you.

University of Utah track and field athlete Lauren McCluskey was fatally shot earlier this year by a man she had recently dumped after she found out he had lied to her about his name, age, and criminal record. The man, Melvin Rowland, 37, died by suicide hours later. But for weeks before her Oct. 22 murder, McCluskey,…

Time is flat and all that, but personally I am looking forward to the New Year.

Congratulations on surviving the holidays, especially those of you who successfully navigated the minefield of rude remarks family surely hurled in your general direction. You did it. Now all that’s left is getting through New Year’s Eve relatively unscathed.

On December 28th, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr was born to Judith and Roger Carr in Virginia’s Norfolk General Hospital, making her the first baby conceived via in vitro fertilization in the United States. A week later, the New York Times reported, the family was released from the hospital to return home to Boston.

For some reason, Woodstock 2019 is in the works.

Even though those most at-risk to overdose in this current opioid crisis are typically white men between the ages of 24 and 44, a new study finds that a growing number of children and teenagers are also dying from opioids.

Samin Nosrat handles food as it should be—with pleasure. In her Netflix series, Salt Fat Acid Heat, she explores the four pillars of good food by following these sensations to various sources around the world. In Italy, she tastes a thin sliver of barely-ripe Parmesan cheese made from the milk of red cows and sighs in…